Nikau DC is a 1:2 Digital Class (DC). This means that we have one iMac / eMac for every two students in the class, at all times. We love having the access to 21st century learning tools and the engagement that this provides. We have also found that computers have a far wider ranging use that simply word processing, email and Google in the classroom.
Students use computers to support, engage and enhance their learning in all subject areas, whether keeping a Numeracy Diary, viewing or making film for theme research / presentation or listening to pod-casts during reading. Digital resources support and engage students with varied learning styles and abilities.
TRANSFORMING CLASSROOMS WITH HELP FROM TECHNOLOGY
Technology has tremendous potential to transform teaching and learning, although our nation's classrooms will not change for the better simply by infusing technology into them. Teacher buy-in, effective professional development, and a vision for the ways in which curriculum and instruction need to evolve in order to educate students for a rapidly changing world are all essential to such a transformation.
Some guidelines for incorporating technology into the curriculum:
Technology should support student activities that would otherwise be difficult or impossible;
Technology should be equitable and address all learning styles;
Curriculum should be developed with the vast new set of digital content in mind.
Digital content packages can:
Address individual learning styles;
Be flexible;
Be quickly adjusted to fit ability levels;
Be translated into different languages;
Be reformatted for presentation and dissemination in various ways;
Include graphic, video, virtual reality, animations, simulations, audio, music, interactive and gaming elements;
Engage students through a rich and varied array of intelligences.
With effective professional development, teachers should feel well prepared and equipped to inspire such learning activities as:
Planned and spontaneous research;
Evaluating the reliability of various online sources;
Students use computers to support, engage and enhance their learning in all subject areas, whether keeping a Numeracy Diary, viewing or making film for theme research / presentation or listening to pod-casts during reading. Digital resources support and engage students with varied learning styles and abilities.
TRANSFORMING CLASSROOMS WITH HELP FROM TECHNOLOGY
Technology has tremendous potential to transform teaching and learning, although our nation's classrooms will not change for the better simply by infusing technology into them. Teacher buy-in, effective professional development, and a vision for the ways in which curriculum and instruction need to evolve in order to educate students for a rapidly changing world are all essential to such a transformation.
Some guidelines for incorporating technology into the curriculum:
Digital content packages can:
With effective professional development, teachers should feel well prepared and equipped to inspire such learning activities as:
taken from http://k12blueprint.com/k12/blueprint/digital.php?menu=digital
We also have access to a still camera, data projector, flip video camera and soon, an iPad.
As our rooms are being renovated, we will not be running digitally until we move back into our home.
On this page we will share some cool digital learning ideas with you over the year.
A Vision of K-12 Students Today
by BJ Nesbit